Art (1900-1945) > Expressionism Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - Biography
Runde Messingbrosche mit Buchstabendekor "K". um 1910.
Brass, chased.
Diameter: 5.6 cm (2.2 in).
[KT].
PROVENANCE: Rosa Schapire Collectionn, Hamburg/London.
Gustav Delbanco, London.
Private collection Great Britain (inherited from the above).
Private collection Lower Saxony (acquired in 2019, Bonhams June 27, 2019).
EXHIBITION: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1925 (no cat.).
LITERATURE: Gerhard Wietek, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Plastik und Kunsthandwerk, Catalogue Raisonné, Munich 2001, no. 357 (illu.).
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Max Sauerlandt, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff-Ausstellung im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, in: Hamburger Fremdenblatt 1925 (illu.).
Gerhard Wietek, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff in Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein, Neumünster 1984, p. 104.
Gerhard Wietek, Schmidt-Rottluff, Oldenburger Jahre 1907-1912, Oldenburg 1995, pp. 205, 470.
In good condition. Sheet brass slightly tarnished in places due to oxidation. A few tiny spots of dirt on the surface. Tiny, barely visible puncture hole in the center.
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